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>> athena jones there from the white house. appreciate it. >> thanks. >>> president harry truman said if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. well, chuck hagel is learning that lesson the hard way after a self-proclaimed friend says he is unfit to serve as secretary of defense. >>> and oscar pistorius has the lead role in what could become south africa's trial of the century. we will dive into the murder charges against the olympic sprinter. >>> and two cardinals may not get a warm welcome when they get to the vatican, as catholic leaders prepare to pick a new pope. >>> john kerry is going to nine country us in 11 days. tee bee sides england, he will visit germany, turkey, egypt you saudi arabia, the united arab emirates and qatar. >>> there could be another addition to the president's cabinet this week. the u.s. senate is expected to vote on chuck hagel as secretary of defense. democrats believe they have the votes to confirm hagel, despite opposition to the pick from hagel's own republican party. >>> the president and
>> athena jones there from the white house. appreciate it. >> thanks. >>> president harry truman said if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. well, chuck hagel is learning that lesson the hard way after a self-proclaimed friend says he is unfit to serve as secretary of defense. >>> and oscar pistorius has the lead role in what could become south africa's trial of the century. we will dive into the murder charges against the olympic sprinter. >>> and...
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athena jones joining us from the north lawn of the white house. the deadline is friday. these cut does affect all of us in one way or another, actually, we are back inside now. tell us how. >> reporter: well, you know, we are hearing about all kinds of bad effects if these cut goes into affect. 75,000 kids could lose access to head start. low-income senior citizens could lose food aid. talking about longer lines at airport security, delays, air traffic controllers, you see cuts there and also another example is food inspections there will be less money available to make sure our products like meat are safe to eat. everyone agrees these cuts, across-the-board cuts are a bad idea, people believe they should, both sides should be able to come together and agree on targeted cuts, really look what the needs to be cut. let's listen to what missouri democrat claire mccaskill said about this morning. >> why is it that we can't come to the table and agree what cuts need to happen? that's what we should be doing. we shouldn't be passing the blame to the executive branch or saying
athena jones joining us from the north lawn of the white house. the deadline is friday. these cut does affect all of us in one way or another, actually, we are back inside now. tell us how. >> reporter: well, you know, we are hearing about all kinds of bad effects if these cut goes into affect. 75,000 kids could lose access to head start. low-income senior citizens could lose food aid. talking about longer lines at airport security, delays, air traffic controllers, you see cuts there and...
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athena jones looks at one of those consequences. >> reporter: this woman and her son have been living in this emergency shelter for a year. she's hoping to get help from the government to pay for more permanent housing. >> i'm on a waiting list for public housing, section 8, and i've been on the waiting list for four years. >> reporter: if lawmakers can't reach a deal to stop forced spending cuts by friday. harrison and others like her can find themselves waiting much, much longer. as funds for public housing are slashed by $300 million and more than 100,000 families lose rental assistance, according to the center on budget and policy priorities. >> not like we're in good shape today. the need, the need for housing assistance is vastly outstripping the availability. this is going to make us go backwards and it's going to make the problem even worse. >> reporter: harrison's shelter is run by a nonprofit that gets some funding by donations. critics of housing say they limit this kind of public sector support. >> we know there is very broad, robust research that says for every dollar gov
athena jones looks at one of those consequences. >> reporter: this woman and her son have been living in this emergency shelter for a year. she's hoping to get help from the government to pay for more permanent housing. >> i'm on a waiting list for public housing, section 8, and i've been on the waiting list for four years. >> reporter: if lawmakers can't reach a deal to stop forced spending cuts by friday. harrison and others like her can find themselves waiting much, much...
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athena jones is following developments and is live in our washington bureau. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, john. the key here is senator john mccain. we learned wednesday frp aiom a to mccain that he was reconsidering his pledge not to filibuster the nomination in order to put pressure on the white house to provide more information about the benghazi attack. this is just the latest sign of trouble for hagel. >> the debate on chuck hagel is not over. >> reporter: another roadblock in chuck hagel's quest to take over at the pentagon. >> we don't have the information we need and i am going to fight the idea of jamming somebody through until we get answers. >> reporter: republican lindsey graham repeating a threat to block the vote until he gets an answer from the white house on whether the president called libyan officials the night of the deadly benghazi attack. this after a sometimes bitter debate in the normally bipartisan senate armed services committ committee. texas republican ted cruz demanded to know more about hagel's speeches. >> we do not kn
athena jones is following developments and is live in our washington bureau. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, john. the key here is senator john mccain. we learned wednesday frp aiom a to mccain that he was reconsidering his pledge not to filibuster the nomination in order to put pressure on the white house to provide more information about the benghazi attack. this is just the latest sign of trouble for hagel. >> the debate on chuck hagel is not over. >> reporter:...
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about the athena marketing discretionary instead be an 8.5 to 9% across-the-board cut for every agency of the government with some exceptions. the entitlement spending on medicare, social security is largely spared to the skies. >> it is a quick review of how the idea they sequester came about. >> this has become like watching 10 lower at this point of how this happened. bob woodward at the post has been putting forward findings in a very pronounced way lately. according to woodward, the idea originally came from jack lu. in the 1980s they used a similar proposal as an enforcement trigger. the idea that these cuts is a researcher crony and you'd come up with a smarter way to do it, to come to a deal on how to do a better way. jack lu, if they're trying to come to an agreement, rather than use the debt ceiling increase as an enforcement trigger, they have to go through that again before the election. how about these sequestration with automatic across-the-board cuts and they had to convince boehner this was an okay idea, who is apparently somewhat reluctant to go on with this. but event
about the athena marketing discretionary instead be an 8.5 to 9% across-the-board cut for every agency of the government with some exceptions. the entitlement spending on medicare, social security is largely spared to the skies. >> it is a quick review of how the idea they sequester came about. >> this has become like watching 10 lower at this point of how this happened. bob woodward at the post has been putting forward findings in a very pronounced way lately. according to...
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cnn's a cnn's athena jones is here with more. >> the faa says there will be up to 10,000 drones in the u.s. skies in the next five years, used by police trying to fight crime, by oil companies trying to monitor pipelines. today's announcement is a step in that direction. the skies across america could soon be welcoming more drones. the faa is seeking proposals from cities, states and universities to create six test sites for unmanned aircraft systems. the sites will help officials develop safety standards that will allow the government to fully integrate drones into the national airspace by 2015. the drone industry says they make good economic sense. >> in the next three years after the faa has figured out integration, we could see as many as 70,000 jobs be created in this new industry. >> reporter: the coast guard uses drones for surveillance on ice sheets in alaska and local authorities in north dakota once used a border patrol drone during a dispute over cattle. drone makers predict they'll eventually been used by energy company to monitor pipelines and by farmers to monitor crops.
cnn's a cnn's athena jones is here with more. >> the faa says there will be up to 10,000 drones in the u.s. skies in the next five years, used by police trying to fight crime, by oil companies trying to monitor pipelines. today's announcement is a step in that direction. the skies across america could soon be welcoming more drones. the faa is seeking proposals from cities, states and universities to create six test sites for unmanned aircraft systems. the sites will help officials develop...
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>> athena jones, thank you very much. >>> he may be known to the public from this moment as the white house awaited out the killing of osama bin laden. but now the president's pick of john brennan to head the cia is coming with controversy. barbara starr is is looking closely at this story. what's the latest, barbara? >> this will be john brennan's first public testimony as an obama administration official. expect to see fireworks at this confirmation hearing. the real question may be how this 25-year cia veteran handles the public spotlight. in a crisis, it's often john brennan giving president obama's 3:00 a.m. wake-up call. >> i'm not sure he's slept in four years. >> there may be even less sleep in brennan is confirmed as the next ci achlt director. >> i will make sure that the cia has tools it needs. >> tools like drones. brennan has helped establish in saudi arabia and the eastern peninsula democrats are demanding answers involved with the ool kwad da. it's one controversy he faces at the confirmation hearing. there's his role i the leaks like the cyberattack on iran's nuclear p
>> athena jones, thank you very much. >>> he may be known to the public from this moment as the white house awaited out the killing of osama bin laden. but now the president's pick of john brennan to head the cia is coming with controversy. barbara starr is is looking closely at this story. what's the latest, barbara? >> this will be john brennan's first public testimony as an obama administration official. expect to see fireworks at this confirmation hearing. the real...